"idiotprogrammer" <idiotprogrammer@gmail.com> wrote
>
> Hi, there, I am moving my website from one linux server to another.
>
> I have basically been gzipping the tar file, scp to the new site and
> there it is.
>
> But I'm having problems when untarring at the other end.
>
> I'm getting some error messages. They may be harmless, but I don't
> know.
>
> Here's my main problem. How can I compare a directory with about
> 20,000 files and subdirectories inside to make sure everything is
> basically there in the unzipped version?
>
> Is there an easy way to find out some stats on one directory.
> (number
> of files, directories, total size etc).
>
> I'm acting under the assumption that the main problem would be
> missing
> files or directories or that the unzip process stopped unzipping
> things when it reached the error message. So really what I need to
> find is how many files made it and the paths of those that didn't.
>
> the end of my screen messages for the tgz were for some media files.
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> I can remove the last few media files and trying zipping/unzipping
> again. But the gzip file is already about 800 mb already. I don't
> want
> to keep doing this only to find out there are 100s of files giving
> problems.
>
> Robert Nagle
>
>
> teleread/StGregorysTestAudio.wav
> teleread/telepodSadi16August2005.wav
> teleread/valleygirl.wav
> teleread/BLOSSOM-JOHN 2.9.06.wma
> teleread/Juliet2.wma
> teleread/LCdavidpresentation.wma
>
> gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
> tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
> tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> [rjnagle@web27 27test]$ ls

Did the tar command complete successfully on the source machine? If it
did so at least twice then you may have some sort of version
conflict - the version untaring seems to trip over something in the
archive.

Alternatively you may have some sort of error on the source box - a
memory or disk space constraint which is creating the bogus EOF. I
guess the same sort of constraint could cause a phantom EOF during
untar, actually.

Sorry, it's difficult to be more specific. If the tar command is fine,
try unpacking the archive on a different machine. That will tell you
whether the problem is with the archive or with the destination box.

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